Chip-sealing on the South Island's State Highway 60 Takaka Hill begins today, with closures in place 9am to 3pm all week. The road will be re-opened every 90 minutes to let through traffic. In the ...

Staglands manager Sarah Purdy has put the bird in a higher-security site. She says Pepper's now in an aviary you can view but can't walk into. 25 Nov 24 Nov: The Corrections Minister says he's ...

Pre-pandemic an increasingly higher proportion of state secondary school students were leaving school with NCEA Level 3. That's now reversed -- with achievement levels dropping to where they were a ...